It’s mooching off healthcare in the us, it’s a basic need for other countries.
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Just pop some health potions
So, they want to take away healthcare young men don’t have so they’ll get jobs that don’t exist. Sounds like a conservative plan.
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I only play computer games after I get home from working hard all day.
I'd be interested to know how I can pay my electricity bill with my free healthcare. Also I need to go to the supermarket today; how do I convert free healthcare into a trolleyful of food?
Once again, we have lawmakers just making spurious if not outright false statements with no repercussions. When your words decide people's reality, you should be afraid of what you say. And I don't see that fear in legislators.
They just say whatever the fuck incorrect bullshit they wish, and walk it back at their leisure when the effect is already resolved in throughout news media. The world's gotten their soundclip, the base started foaming when they heard their whistles, and then the politican quietly amends "oh, I obviously didn't mean that." If more politicans shut the fuck up because they were scared of the repercussions of walking their statements back, then maybe there'd be more reporting on what they've done then the inflammatorily idiotic shit they spew every other day.
Yes, that's why they're at home all day, and ignoring all the well paid jobs out there with free healthcare that I'm sure they'd get if they just went door to door with a résumé like these ghouls pretend they did in the 1950s.
As a father of two young men... Good!
Healthcare is a right. Especially in the richest nation in the history of humanity.
Can these monsters please just fuck off!
What free healthcare?
Yeah! We gotta give people the choice to work or die due to lack of medical care! That's never been done before! What's that called?
Man collecting handsome salary and amazing healthcare in exchange for betraying his entire country tries to shift the public focus onto people trying to make their lives less miserable with video games.
Y'all got free healthcare?
Where is this free healthcare? Because I'm paying out the ass for my very minimal coverage.
Shut the fuck up, boomer. No seriously, get that dated, old man yells at cloud bullshit out of politics.
How's your son's dick today, Mike Johnson? You have the app that tells you, so if you wouldn't mind...
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Oooh, I'm one of those! Gaming on foodstamps and social health in a US state, AMA.
How does it feel being rich???
Truly wonderful.
You need the gaming in this lifestyle to help divert attention from not being able to get comfort foods at month's end.
Otherwise it leaves me all the time to realize the physical and mental hells I am putting myself through. I've been qualified for free health care for over a year, but I just arrived to the point where I can reach out and engage the system. I initially thought enrolling would come in handy if I get into an accident, but last week I made the call to start preventive treatments.
I have an appointment with an actual doctor next month. I am also getting the ball rolling on the emotional side. I was contemplating moving back home, but now I might give this current iteration some more time.
edit: i just reread the title (of course I didn't read the article); I'm 40.
I mean I do know a lot of people with no real jobs that game all day and they have some sorta shitty health care that doesn't really get them proper treatment if that counts
What's an enormous brain he has, it's amazing that it fits in his itty bitty head.
So living in the UK which has free healthcare I can tell everybody that it's super easy to do this.
Obviously I don't have a job so I can't afford food, so I just starve myself until I nearly die, and then the NHS turn up and put me in one of those pokeball rehabilitation things and I'm good to go.
So basically, they are mooching off of free healthcare - by performing by one of the most risk free activities that is almost going to guarantee they won't need healthcare in the first place?
MAGA tactic:
Take negative stereotype, say it is preventing a desirable goal from being reached, then say it is because of what you are actually trying to cut. Doesn't matter if they barely have any real relation to each other.
What we can? How? I've been eating ramen and hemorrhaging savings paying for cobra
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